What is the value of a psychiatrist’s opinion?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Regina v. Perras, 1972 CanLII 868 (SK CA):
In Wilband v. The Queen, supra, Fauteux J. at p. 297 stated: “The value of a psychiatrist’s opinion may be affected to the extent to which it may rest on second-hand source material; but that goes to the weight and not to the deceivability in evidence of the opinion, which opinion is no evidence of the truth of the information but evidence of the opinion formed on the basis of that information.”
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